The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.

Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.

If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.